Sunday, November 08, 2015

NY Times is Betting *BIG* on Virtual Reality for Journalism

What looks goofier than someone trying on a virtual reality headset? Maybe an entire room of well-dressed journalists and other attendees holding cardboard virtual reality headsets to their faces and swiveling their heads in every direction. That was the scene from the premiere of a virtual reality experience called “The Displaced” created for a new New York Times VR app. But there’s nothing silly about the New York Times effort to make virtual reality journalism go mainstream.